Iron County register., 1887-02-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| DURING a gale on the Nova Scotia coast
on the night of the gath the schooner G..
| Graham, from Bermuda, was driven
ashore, and all on board were drowned.
PETE McCoY, one of the principals in
! prize fight at Cleveland, O., on the 18th,
was sentenced on the Goth to pay fine OF
| one hundred dollars. and was committed to
| the workhouse for thirty days.
| A BATTERY of three boilers in Harvey's s
| paper mill at Wellsburg, Va, exploded on
| the 25th, completely shattering the west
ern portion of the mill, instantly killing
! two men and wounding three more.
! THE funeral of the late General Charles
P. Stone took place at New York on the
9th.
/ is in jail at Cedar Rapids, Ia, on charge
| of criminal libel
TIE opinion prevails at Washing gton
that the President will call an extra ses-
sion of Congress in October.
| THE British Parliament was opened on
the 27th. The Queens speech was read by
| Lord Halsbury.
| Mrs. VAN ZANDT, of Chicago, is said to
! be making strenuous efforts to secure
eminent counsel to plead in behalf of the
| condemned Anarchists.
FROM a report to the United States Sen
ate, in response to inquiry, it appears that
the fees paid Mr. Bliss in the Lindsay land
| fraud cases were S6,370.
| A SENSATION has been caused in Paris
| by General Boulanger1s sudden refusal to
grant an audience to any foreign journal
| ist.
| ENGRAVED cards of invitation to the
State dinner to the diplomatic corps at
| Washington, February 8, have been issued
at the White House.
| A THEATRICAL company is to be put on
the road to raise funds for the purpose Of
| paying the debts of the late Archbishop
| Purcell.
! LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL explained
| in the House of Commons, on the 9th, his
| reason for resigning from Lord Sails
| bury's cabinet.
AN immense amount of damage has been
| done at Port Deposit, Mi, by floods, re-
sulting from an ice gorge opposite that
place.
THE final count in the election for the
| Exchange division of Liverpool confirms
| the defeat Goschen by Neville, the Glad
stone candidate, by seven votes.
| A FEMALE witness is said to have been
discovered at New York whose evidence,
| it is thought, will clear ex-Alderman
O'Neil.
BALLoTISG for Senator in the Indiana,
Texas and West Virginia Legislatures on
the 27th was without result.
Mr.. GLADSTONE was enthusiastically
| cheered by the people on his way to the
House of Commons on the 27th.
PRINCE NICHOLAS of Leuchterburg will
be proposed by Russia as a candidate for
the Bulgarian throne.
ARMSTRONG, CRAIG & Co, paper manu-
facturers at Philadelphia, suffered los s
of $50, 900 by fire on the night of the 21th.
EDWARD UNGER, saloon-zeeper, has
been arrested at New York, charged with
the murder of the man found in a trunk at
Baltimore.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the Union National Bank of
D uluth Mimi, to begin business with
capital of $500, 600.
KING THEEBAw of Burn ah entered
Mandalay on the 9th in royal style, riding
upon an elephant. The British commits
sioners conducted him to a residence out
side of the palace walls.
MCCLELLAN, late Canadian Minister of
fisheries, thinks the proposed fisheries
legislation at Washington will cut both
ways, and that Canada will not be greatly
troubled by it.
ALL of the collieries of the Lehigh &
Wilkes barre Coal Company have resumed
operations at their full capacity. This in
cludes all the collieries of the Red Ash
Coal Company, whose coal is taken by the
Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Company.
A COMMUNICATION from Berlin, pub
lished at Pesth, states that war between
Germany and France is regarded as more
probable than the German public are led
to believe.
ARCHBISHOP CoRRIGAN, Cardinal Glib
bons, Cardinal Taschereau and the men,
bers of the Archbishop's council had
meeting in New York on the 9th, and
talked over matters relating to the pres
ent disorders in the Catholic Church.
TuF Ouaau has her own cplabra-
tion of her own jubilee by commanding
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall to perform the we'll
known piece, "Uncle's WILL" on the 31st,
at Osborne. This will be the second time
since Prince Albert's death that the piece
has been presented at a dramatic per-
formance.
JUDGE HARMON, of the Superior Court of
Ohio, has resigned.
j. NJ. ZEIGER, of st. Louis, committed
suicide at Omaha, Neb, on the 2Sth.
PUBLIC alarm has been renewed in Ger
many over the probabilities of war.
RUSSIA refuses to. join a formal confer
ence on the Bulgarian question.
COLONEL WEsTMAN, of Joliet, Ill, COM
mitted suicide on the 2Sth on account of
illness.
A CoLoRED woman named Mary Jones
was shot at Baltimore, nd, on the night
of the 2Sth, while burglarizing store.
GERMANY is said to be erecting barracks
along the French frontier.
a LOT of wool, smuggled from Canada,
has been seized by government officers in
Philadelphia.
POSTMASTER CURRY. of Stewardson, ILL.,,
has been dismissed on account of shortage
in his accounts.
A REVOLUTION has broken out among the
inhabitants of the Maldive islands in the
Pacific ocean.
President CLEVELAND and wife are Sc
riously considering trip to the West the
coming summer.
JOHN MORLEY has been agreed upon as
me diator between the Northumberland
(Eng. miners and their employers.
A LITTLE daughter of Amos Weller,
near Des Moines, Ia, was killed on the
2Sth by the careless discharge of gun. i
PEOPLE of Achille island, off County
Mayo, Ireland, are preparing for active rel
s stance to evictions. /
-JU.pGE GRANT, of Marquette, Mich, who l
tried the cases, confirms the recently pub |
ished reports of dcpravity in the lumber |
camps |
CORNISH, who killed his sweetheart at |
Ky, made desperate at |
tempt Gu the 2Sth to escape Sail at Bards- /
town. where he was confined
WkEDEN MARNADUKE of the Missouri |
refused to take WittYock
and Haig1t to st. Louis 30 testify in the
gtsam case in response to a writ
of habeas corpus, being fortified in his
action by an opinion from Attorney Gen
eral Boone.
SIR MICHAEL HIcKs-BEAcu made a sen
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